[newbie-it] SANE
non riesco a lanciare il daemon SANE che ho installato da rpm (mandrake7.1) ho seguito le istruzioni in "man saned" ma una volta digitato SANE non trova il comando. se digito scanimage mi dice che non trova i devices per SANE. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie-it] scanner
ciao, chi mi pu dare una mano? vorrei configurare il mio scanner LG Electronics parallelo ma non so da dove cominciare, ho mandato una e-mail alla LG ma non ho avuto risposta. spero tanto che qualcuno mi risolva il problema, per cortesia siate chieri perch sono alle prime armi con Linux. il mio indirizzo : [EMAIL PROTECTED] grazie
[newbie-it] Installazione RPM
Ciao! Da qualche giorno, quando tento di installare alcuni programmi in formato RPM, mi appare il seguente messaggio :"only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM"; cosa significa esattamente, e come posso ovviare all'inconveniente? La mia distro è la 7.1. Grazie Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] scanner
"pol.do" wrote: ciao, chi mi può dare una mano? vorrei configurare il mio scanner LG Electronics parallelo ma non so da dove cominciare, ho mandato una e-mail alla LG ma non ho avuto risposta. spero tanto che qualcuno mi risolva il problema, per cortesia siate chieri perchè sono alle prime armi con Linux. il mio indirizzo è: [EMAIL PROTECTED] grazie Per favore non postare in html ! Per quanto riguarda gli scanner paralleli, pochissimi sono supportati perche' si basano so protocolli proprietari. Dai comunque un'occhiata su http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html e soprattutto al sito SANE. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione RPM
Corrado wrote: Ciao! Da qualche giorno, quando tento di installare alcuni programmi in formato RPM, mi appare il seguente messaggio :"only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM"; cosa significa esattamente, e come posso ovviare all'inconveniente? La mia distro è la 7.1. Che la RedHat-7.0 ha introdotto la versione 4 di rpm. La tua Mandrake ha la versione 3 e non riesce a leggere i pacchetti per la versione 4. Ti sconsiglio di aggiornare a rpm-4.0 perche' non e` ancora molto affidabile. Pare, non ho esperienza diretta, che faccia pasticci nel gestire il data-base dei pacchetti installati precedentemente con rpm-3. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] GRUB
Avendo un hard disk molto capiente ho riservato tre partizioni per altrettante distribuzioni linux (una di lavoro: Mandrake 7.1 e le altre due per provare altre distribuzioni e fare un po di pratica visto che sono un newbiessimo). Fino ad ora ho sempre installato il loader (lilo o grub) sulla stessa partizione dove è installata la distribuzione lasciando poi a BootMagic il compito di bootloader per lanciare i singoli sistemi operativi. Dopo questa lunga (scusate!) premessa vengo al dunque: una distribuzione che ho installato ieri mi ha piazzato grub sul MBR senza chiedere assolutamente nulla col risultato che adesso è quel loader a controllare tutto! Vorrei chiedervi: 1 Come devo fare per installare grub sulla partizione (hdb9) dove si trova la relativa distribuzione (conosco un po la configurazione di lilo ma nulla su grub!)? 2 Come devo fare per cancellare grub dal MBR in modo da ridare il controllo a BootMagic? (è corretto fare, da finestra dos: C:\FDISK /MBR ?. . . e da linux? [so che con lilo la procedura è:lilo u ]. Grazie Marco
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione RPM
On Monday 13 November 2000 17:31, you wrote: Ti sconsiglio di aggiornare a rpm-4.0 perche' non e` ancora molto affidabile. Pare, non ho esperienza diretta, che faccia pasticci nel gestire il data-base dei pacchetti installati precedentemente con rpm-3. ciao, andrea Ci avevo anche provato... :) Il problema è che non riesco a fare upgrade di cui avrei effettivamente bisogno... Quindi, devoproprio"adeguarmi"e installarevia tarball??? Corrado potrebbe essere un idiozia perche' il problema mi si era presentato ma ho poi installato la 7.2. hai provato pero' ad installare una versione dell'rpm superiore a quella che hai? sempre una 3 qualcosa pero', non la 4, che e' per ora da lasciar stare. -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/aciderror/freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - www.davidebanda.nelweb.net ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] gcc
Casa wrote: Il sab, 11 nov 2000, hai scritto: scusate la domanda, forse idiota, ma GCC è un ANSI C compiler? se no, dove lo posso trovare un ANSI C compiler? grazie mille, osva Io uso regolarmente gcc per compilare i programmi in ansi c, appunto. Ciao, Nicola. Se, dal prompt della shell, lanci un "man gcc", vedrai che, quando vuoi compilare un programma scritto in linguaggio C, se aggiungi l'opzione "-ansi" (così da scrivere "gcc -ansi -o nome_file_eseguibile nome_file_sorgente.c" " invece di "gcc -o nome_file_eseguibile nome_file_sorgente.c" e basta), la tua compilazione supporterà qualsiasi tuo programma C scritto secondo i dettami dello standard ANSI. :) Tra l'altro, se vuoi maggiori informazioni sul compilatore libero gcc, oltre a trovarle sul tuo disco fisso (magari nella tua directory /usr/doc, oltre che in altri posti), un'altra fonte di informazione, nel caso non la conoscessi già, è costituita dalla pagina web sita all'indirizzo http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html :) Spero di esserti(vi) stato utile. :) Ciao :) Marco
[newbie-it] Mandrake 7.1 e scheda audio
Ho usato per oltre un mese la 7.1 con una Creative PCI 128, senza problemi. Improvvisamente, senza ragioni apparenti non essendo stato modificato nulla nel software, la scheda audio non funziona piu' (l'unica cosa avvenuta e' stato il cambio di slot della scheda, che comunque funziona benissimo con altri due diversi SO presenti sul sistema ed assolutamente indipendenti da Linux). I messaggi di errore all'avvio dicono all'incirca: init_module: Dispositivo o risorsa occupata e fallimenti vari nel modulo /lib/modules/../es1371.o Tentativi di riconfigurare la scheda (che comunque viene riconosciuta) con sndconfig o sounddrake tutti rigorosamente a vuoto, sempre gli stessi messaggi di errore. Suggerimenti?
[newbie-it] 7.2 con icone di floppy e cd rom mancanti
Ho installato la 7.2 con kde come interfaccia grafica, e le icone del floppy e dei due CD-rom che ho non compaiono sul desktop. Le relative righe di mount nel fstab ci sono, ma se cerco di richiamarle dal desktop mi dicono che non ho il permesso per montare il dispositivo. Se entro come root, mi dice la stessa cosa :-( Nota te che nel fstab ci sono le due righe dei 2 CDROM: una funziona benissimo, l'altra no. Guardando in home/enzo con il konqueror, mi fa vedere due cartelle, relative ai 2 CDROM, solo che una ha un lucchetto sopra, sia come user sia come root, e non c'e' verso di aprirla. potete aiutarmi ? grazie Giorgio Lazzari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] USB CAM
Ciao a tutti, non e' la prima volta che scrivo qua e qualcuno mi riconoscera'. per quel che puo' importare;-)! Per correttezza dico che non ho ancora provato il programma di Email "PRONTO", non mi sono molto applicato a dire il vero per motivi di tempo, a parte tutto Linux funziona bene, anche se non l' ho ancora adottato a tempo pieno! (lo confesso). Per questo vorrei sapere se e' supportata dalla Mandrake 7.0 la SPACECAM USB della TRUST e se ci sono programmi per LInux come Netmeeting o Icuui ! Grazie come sempre CIao! CIRO! e il suo modem :)
Re: [newbie-it] 7.2 con icone di floppy e cd rom mancanti
Il lun, 13 nov 2000, hai scritto: Ho installato la 7.2 con kde come interfaccia grafica, e le icone del floppy e dei due CD-rom che ho non compaiono sul desktop. Non saranno mica le icone il problema ? :-) Le relative righe di mount nel fstab ci sono, ma se cerco di richiamarle dal desktop mi dicono che non ho il permesso per montare il dispositivo. Se entro come root, mi dice la stessa cosa :-( Nota te che nel fstab ci sono le due righe dei 2 CDROM: una funziona benissimo, l'altra no. Guardando in home/enzo con il konqueror, mi fa vedere due cartelle, relative ai 2 CDROM, solo che una ha un lucchetto sopra, sia come user sia come root, e non c'e' verso di aprirla. Tutte ste' robe prova farle da console, e fai il mount a mano. Facci vedere fstab come e' fatto :) Le icone non sono un problema, bisogna vedere se fa il mount: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom poi vai in /mnt/cdrom e dai ls. Ciao, Nicola.
[newbie-it] Posta elettronica.
Non riesco in alcun modo,per quanto abbia tentato, ad utilizzare ( tranne con Messenger di Netscape e StarOffice 5.2) la posta elettronica con Linux. Kmail si blocca e non va piu' avanti costringendomi al kill; Spruce, un programma di posta elettronica di cui si parla sulla rivista LinuxC di questo mese, idem; dov'e' che sbaglio? Ho controllato ,come posso, le impostazioni e non mi sembra di avere saltato qualcosa.Un altro essendo in formato rpm, non si installa perche' ci sono dei problemi di dipendenza. Qualcuno che ha risolto dei problemi di questo tipo potrebbe aiutarmi? Un saluto a tutti, Alessandro 46
[newbie-it] Prelevievo 7.2
allora eccovi la schermata d'errore che mi da subito dopo che avvio l'installazione di linux dopo aver premuto il tasto enter all'atto della richiesta se installare linux o F1 per le options in tutte e due i casi mi da l'errore: (premetto che con la mandrake 7.1 questo errore non lo da) NET4: LINUX TCP/IP 1.0 FOR NET 4.0 IP PROTOCOLS: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: HASH TABLES CONFIGURED (EHASH 131072 BHASH 65536) STARTING KSWAPD V 1.5 DETECTED PS/2 MOUSE PORT. RAM DISK DRIVER INITIALIZED: 16RAM DISKS OF 32000k SIXE UNIFORM MULTI-PLATFORM E-IDE DRIVER REVISION: 6.30 IDE: ASSUMING 33MHZ SYSTEM BUS SPEED FOR PIOMODE; OVVERRIDE WITH IDEBUS=XX VP_IDE: IDE CONTROLLER ON PCI BUS 00 DEV 39 VP_IDE: CHIPSET REVISION 6 VP_IDE: NOT 100% NATIVE MODE : WILL PROBE IRQS LATER VT82C691 APOLLO PRO CHIPSET CORE ATA-66 SPLIT FIFO CONFIGURATION : 8 PRIMARY BUFFERS, TRESHOLD = 1/2 8 SECOND. BUFFERS, TRESHOLD = 1/2 IDE0:BM-DMA AT 0XE000-0XE007, BIOS SETTINGS : HDA:DMA, HDB:DMA IDE0:VIA BUS-MASTER (U)DMA TIMING CONFIG SUCCESS IDE1:BM-DMA AT 0XE008-0XEOOF, BIOS SETTINGS : HDC:DMA, HDD:DMA IDE1:VIA BUS-MASTER (U)DMA TIMING CONFIG SUCCESS HDA:SAMSUNG SV0844A, ATA DISK DRIVE HDB:CRD-8320B, ATAPI CDROM DRIVE HDC=WT3244EI, ATAPI CDROM DRIVE IDEO AT 0X1F0-0X1F7, 0X3F6 ON IRQ14 IDE1 AT 0X170-0X177, 0X376 ON IRQ15 ARRIVATI LI SI BLOCCA E NON VA PIU' AVANTI GRAZIE A CHI PUO' AIUTARMI ---Saluti Giuseppe Giudice
Re: [newbie] Login without window manager choice
Je ne connais pas grand'chose en linux. Cependant, lors de ma premiere installation de mandrake 7.0, il y a trois jours, j'ai eu le même problem. J'avais choisi l'option Custom. Si tu as mandrake sur une partition toute seule, tu n'as qu'à démarer l'ordinateur avec ton cd-rom de mandrake et chosir l'option "Recommended" ; tu auras la chance de reformater ta partition de mandrake sans perdre les donnees sur les autres paritions. Il y a une section d'aide qui te suit durant l'intallation suis-la aussi et tout se passeras tres bien. Bonne chance. fais moi savoir si ça a marché pour toi. - Original Message - From: "Francois Bouffard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [newbie] Login without window manager choice I just installed Mandrake 7.2 -- it is my 3rd Linux Mandrake installation and it's always been OK with the previous two (MDK 6.1 and 7.1). But now, after X is launched, instead of having the Linux Mandrake login prompt with the cute icons, the shutdown menu and the window manager pull-down menu, I get a rather harsh looking login prompt with a black-and-white console log in the bottom right. There is no shutdown menu or window manager choice, and Gnome is launched whenever I login (I wish it would be KDE). During the installation, I tried choosing RPMs myself to get the installation size down to about 1 GB. I don't think I unchecked anything important or related to this, but since it is not a reported bug, this is probably the case... Does anyone know if I can correct the situation just by installing an eventual missing package? Note that I have tried to reinstall Mandrake with no result. A last comment that might be useful to anyone trying to help me: to save disk space, I unchecked all window managers that aren't KDE. Gnome seems to be installed for dependancies reasons... Maybe the Linux Mandrake prompt needs multiple window managers to be installed? / François Étudiant à la maîtrise en Génie électrique Bouffard Graduate Student in Electrical Engineering COPL, Université Laval, Québec, QC [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.gel.ulaval.ca/~fbouffar/ /
RE: [newbie]printing
Title: RE: [newbie]printing Or, when you select the object or file you want, hold down the shift key and then click, you should get a save to box that will start the download to a location like /home/dennis/ filename. That is the quickest way I know of to start a download. You can change the save location also. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dale Kosan Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]printing You are using Netscape I bet,right click on the file or link and choose save as.The other way,as you have found out is not easy to understand.After all the code is done,go up to file,save as and you are done.Just easier to right click... - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]printing Dear All, I went to the site to download Cups and I got alot of computer language or code printout to my screen instead of an RPM package that I expected. I went to a site for Acroread 4.02 rpm and the same thing happened. What do I need to do to correct this? Thank you. Marcia
[newbie] VIA Apollo Pro 7.2
What happened to the VIA Chipset and 7.2? I have 7.1 Running on my SOYO 6VBA133 M/B with the VIA Apollo Pro Chipset. Yet while attempting a fresh install of 7.2 or an upgrade through FTP install, I can't get past the hard drive partition setup portion of the install. Using the expert mode on one occasion I was at least able to read the notes on why it wouldn't install. The installer did not recognize any VIA Chipset, Bridges, Controllers etc. at all, it's option was to ingore them. WHY? Yet it did recognize my VIA Rhine NIC for the install. Regardz, Sean
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Re: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)?
Jamie Kerwick wrote: To quote mandrakeuser.org, "In LM 7, run XFdrake as 'root'. For enhanced options, try XFdrake --expert If these don't work for you, try XFree's own setup utility xf86config" Jamie Guys, I don't know what the diff is, but on my setup, (using the 3DFX stuff for my Voodoo 3000) its: XF86Config Note the caps! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Terminalogy
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Donald Jr Saxton wrote: Hello, All. Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? Intel 386 , Intel 486 and Intel 586 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] RPM Problems
You are using RPMs that were intended to be used with an older version of RPM than the one you have. I would suggest using the --nodeps and --force flags for the install if a test run of doing the rpm indicates that there are no other unsatisfied dependencies [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 11:20:08 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] RPM Problems Hi there, I am fairly new to Mandrake Linux and rpm's in general. I am experiencing a peculiar problem when trying to install some rpm's. I get the following errors (dependency failures) and I am unsure of how I can solve this problem. rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) = 4.0-1 is needed by .. rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1 is needed by This has now occurred on a couple of different rpms' I have mandrake 7.1 installed on a PIII 550 with 128M RAM Any help on this would be appreciated. - Shannon -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Shannon Doyle http://www.bigblue.net.au -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Email is packaged by intellectual weight, not volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during transmission. -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
[newbie] (...) XF86Setup / xf86config problem
I know that XF86Setup is case sensitive but the problem I have is with xf86config. this one IN NOT case sensitive and the "command not found" errors he gives me are internal (i think) it's not the same thing has when you write some shit on the console and he says "command not found" but this one gives me a list of 5 or 6 lines saying something like this: Modeselect (...) : command not found (other things) (...): command not found how can I restore the original xf86config to at least running him properly?
Re: [newbie] (...) XF86Setup / xf86config problem
Heavy. We need more detail. Copy us /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XErrorDB which gives the details of the errors. You look in /usr/X11R6/bin and there is something like Xconfigurator or Xfsetup or something along those lines that you can execute from the command line that will get you sorted without needing to go into X. The other thing you can do is restore the backup of XF86Config you made before you knackered it 8) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 11:18:05 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] (...) XF86Setup / xf86config problem I know that XF86Setup is case sensitive but the problem I have is with xf86config. this one IN NOT case sensitive and the "command not found" errors he gives me are internal (i think) it's not the same thing has when you write some shit on the console and he says "command not found" but this one gives me a list of 5 or 6 lines saying something like this: Modeselect (...) : command not found (other things) (...): command not found how can I restore the original xf86config to at least running him properly? -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
[newbie] telnet : connection refused
i have an error in mandrake 7.2 i have an error connection refused by foreign host... could you help me ?
Re: [newbie] (...) startx / xf86config problem again
Krulo, Are you attempting to run this command as root (su)? If not, that would be why you're getting this error. Try this... At the LILO prompt type linux 3. That will drop you at a console login. Login as root and at the command prompt type setuptool. From here you can configure X-windows far easier. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 Krulo had this to say! When I run startx he loads all those things and then enters and exist right away and gives me this msg: waiting for X server to shut down what can I do? my xf86config doesn't work it says something like this: Modeselect: command not found (other things...) : command not found what can I do to get into xwindows?
Re: [newbie] (...) startx / xf86config problem again
Guys...guys.the correct command is "setuptool". This will bring up the interface that will allow you to configure not only X-windows, but sound, mouse, and a few other things that I can't think of at the moment. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 Paul had this to say! On Monday 13 November 2000 00:34, Krulo keyboarded: It works on my machine. You may have to look on the cd to install it (although it should be installed always). Did you remember to do it as root? Paul Xconfigurator??? there is no Xconfigurator... at least "unknown command" that now?? - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] (...) startx / xf86config problem again On Sunday 12 November 2000 22:00, Krulo keyboarded: run XConfigurator (as root), and check that you select a video mode that is supported by your card. Paul
[newbie] RE: [Toshiba CDROM XM6102B
Hello, I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 in an old Pentium 200 MMX with a Toshiba CDROM XM6102B, but the installer doesn't recognized this CDROM model; it gives me question about if it is an IDE or SCSI CDROM, and doesn't recognized it as IDE, but it seems that there is not any special module for this old CDROM. Could anybody help me? Thanks so much Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
Re: [newbie] Geoforce 256 + mandrake 7.2
I tried following these steps, however, the GLX file doesn't make properly because on my system the .../modules/extensions dir doesn't exist, there is a file called extensions but no dir, also some of the settings, in XF86Config file, that i need to change aren't there in the 1st place. when running the nv_check it falls over looking for nv_module.o (something like that) which is in the ../modules/extensions dir. This is driving me mad, because i have tried a couple of things each time i have re-install. Thanks for your time Jamie On Friday 10 November 2000 14:45, Jamie Kerwick wrote: I can't seem to configure my geoforce card correctly. The x windows works fine, i just can't get the 3d to work. I have an athlon 800 + 128mb ram, so should get more than 1 fps on GLTron! Other games seem to run really slow too, like tuxkart. I have the mesa drivers installed. I did a customised developer install with almost everything there OK. Mesa doesn't work properly with nVidia chipset's, use nVidia's own GL. Check out www.realityx.net/nvidia.html for a howto on setting up your system :) -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / Live your life by your dreams, not by the limits of reality... _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] RE: [Toshiba CDROM XM6102B
One option is to copy the contents of the CD onto your windows partition and then boot an install floppy, hit F1 for options and do linux all which will allow you to choose your installation medium of choice which in your case is a local FAT (windows) HDD partition [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 13:00:12 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] RE: [Toshiba CDROM XM6102B Hello, I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 in an old Pentium 200 MMX with a Toshiba CDROM XM6102B, but the installer doesn't recognized this CDROM model; it gives me question about if it is an IDE or SCSI CDROM, and doesn't recognized it as IDE, but it seems that there is not any special module for this old CDROM. Could anybody help me? Thanks so much Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
[newbie] /proc/kcore - what is it?
Hello Can anyone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is? Can I delete it? Many thanks Eduardo
[newbie] problem swapping CDs during installation of Mandrake Linux 7.1
Hello, I was wondering whether anyone could help me with an installation issue. I have a Pentium machine running at 100mHZ, 32MB RAM, with a brand new Sony 48X CD-ROM drive. The installation proceeds smoothly until I try to swap CDs from the installation CD to the Extensions CD. The Installation and User Guide assumes that the CD will be automatically ejected in preparation for a swapping of CDs. This does not occur on my machine. Secondly even after manually resetting the CD-ROM drive and swapping the CDs the installation program refuses to recognise that the Extensions CD is in the CD-ROM drive. What is going on? At the moment I have a bare bones Linux installation. I would like to install the rest of the packages from the Extensions and Applications Cd's. How can I go about that? Any help would be much appreciated. -- Noam mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???)
well here is my situation: I'm under a PI 120, 81Mb RAM, Mandrake 7.1 I already made it to setup sound card and ethernet but now the only thing that I could do before (configuring X) is making me MAD! this is what I get from some commands in the console: XConfigurator bash: XConfigurator : command not found startx Fatal Server error: No valid modes found. xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : modeline : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : mode : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : endmode : command not found setuptool bash: setuptool : command not found but my XF86Setup works! but when I try any of the combinations for the modes I always get a "no valid mode found" running "startx". isn't there any autoprobe or something like that to detect my card and valid modes 4 it? tx
[newbie] size of log files
Hi, I installed PMFirewall recently and have been getting a ton of the same message in my syslog and messages files - they are "deny" messages, but of my own static IP address, so I must have something set up wrong. As a consequence, these files have been getting huge, and have caused me some problems when the partition has run out of space. I notice that there is a .gz file of each of these files. Is there a system parameter that based on the filesize automatically compresses the file ? If so, how do I manipulate that so that my system behaves while I track down the firewall problem ? Thanks, philomena
RE: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???)
is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? -Original Message- From: Krulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 November 2000 12:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) well here is my situation: I'm under a PI 120, 81Mb RAM, Mandrake 7.1 I already made it to setup sound card and ethernet but now the only thing that I could do before (configuring X) is making me MAD! this is what I get from some commands in the console: XConfigurator bash: XConfigurator : command not found startx Fatal Server error: No valid modes found. xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : modeline : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : mode : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : endmode : command not found setuptool bash: setuptool : command not found but my XF86Setup works! but when I try any of the combinations for the modes I always get a "no valid mode found" running "startx". isn't there any autoprobe or something like that to detect my card and valid modes 4 it? tx
Re: [newbie] XFree86 4.0
It's my impression also that 4.x.x normally installs. I have seen depending on which video card you have for it to install 3.3.6 instead. You can get this as an option by doing an Expert install. Now of course, there is a whole other range of issues that you will have to deal with yourself, so if your not up to this, then I'd suggest to not do the Expert installation. Of course, if this is being installed on a test only box, then have at it. If the installation goes, bad there is no reason that you can't try and fix the installation or totally re-run it to see what effect different options have... On Monday 13 November 2000 04:51 am, you wrote: Hi! I had installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 recently. And I surprissed when I saw that it installed Xfree86 3.6.6, not 4.0. I am very interesting in install Xfree 4.0 because the enhacements that it has. I have installed in my computer a TNT2 with 32 MB graphics card. Can anyone tell me how can I make to install 4.0 in my computer? Are there any distribution that it comes with 4.0? Thank you: Alfonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Douglas Moreen email [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone 406-375-0566 web http://www.allboot.com mailAllBoot.Com 814 Priscilla Way Hamilton, MT 59840
[newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)?
I dont think so... I tried: xconfigurator XConfigurator Xconfigurator xConfigurator xconfig Xconfig XConfig xconf Xconf XConf nothing works... anyone got any idead?? - Original Message - From: "Lewis Bishop" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:23 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? -Original Message- From: Krulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 November 2000 12:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) well here is my situation: I'm under a PI 120, 81Mb RAM, Mandrake 7.1 I already made it to setup sound card and ethernet but now the only thing that I could do before (configuring X) is making me MAD! this is what I get from some commands in the console: XConfigurator bash: XConfigurator : command not found startx Fatal Server error: No valid modes found. xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : modeline : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : mode : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : endmode : command not found setuptool bash: setuptool : command not found but my XF86Setup works! but when I try any of the combinations for the modes I always get a "no valid mode found" running "startx". isn't there any autoprobe or something like that to detect my card and valid modes 4 it? tx
RE: [newbie] (...) XF86Setup / xf86config problem
You have to run these as root. --- Original Message --- "Krulo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Mon, 13 Nov 2000 11:18:05 - -- I know that XF86Setup is case sensitive but the problem I have is with xf86config. this one IN NOT case sensitive and the "command not found" errors he gives me are internal (i think) it's not the same thing has when you write some shit on the console and he says "command not found" but this one gives me a list of 5 or 6 lines saying something like this: Modeselect (...) : command not found (other things) (...): command not found how can I restore the original xf86config to at least running him properly? - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere!
RE: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???)
1) you MUST be root to run xf86config 2) Do you know anything about your video card and monitor? Because you'll need it to setup the proper xserver. --- Original Message --- "Krulo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:43:02 - -- well here is my situation: I'm under a PI 120, 81Mb RAM, Mandrake 7.1 I already made it to setup sound card and ethernet but now the only thing that I could do before (configuring X) is making me MAD! this is what I get from some commands in the console: XConfigurator bash: XConfigurator : command not found startx Fatal Server error: No valid modes found. xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : modeline : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : mode : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : endmode : command not found setuptool bash: setuptool : command not found but my XF86Setup works! but when I try any of the combinations for the modes I always get a "no valid mode found" running "startx". isn't there any autoprobe or something like that to detect my card and valid modes 4 it? tx - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere!
Re: [newbie] problem swapping CDs during installation of Mandrake Linux 7.1
Well can you type in " mc " from the command line? This will start MidnightCommander, which is a nice file-manager/viewer/editor application. There is also a command line in mc that you should be able to type in rpm -i Uvh somename.rpm. This will get your packages installed, The cdrom is on this point of your machine. /mnt/cdrom look around in there. I'd tell you where the rpm files are but why ruin all your fun. You should look around the directory structure of your whole machine in addition to the cdrom disks. On Monday 13 November 2000 05:46 am, you wrote: Hello, I was wondering whether anyone could help me with an installation issue. I have a Pentium machine running at 100mHZ, 32MB RAM, with a brand new Sony 48X CD-ROM drive. The installation proceeds smoothly until I try to swap CDs from the installation CD to the Extensions CD. The Installation and User Guide assumes that the CD will be automatically ejected in preparation for a swapping of CDs. This does not occur on my machine. Secondly even after manually resetting the CD-ROM drive and swapping the CDs the installation program refuses to recognise that the Extensions CD is in the CD-ROM drive. What is going on? At the moment I have a bare bones Linux installation. I would like to install the rest of the packages from the Extensions and Applications Cd's. How can I go about that? Any help would be much appreciated. -- Douglas Moreen email [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone 406-375-0566 web http://www.allboot.com mailAllBoot.Com 814 Priscilla Way Hamilton, MT 59840
RE: [newbie] size of log files
I'm not in front of my computer at home but if I am not mistaken you can set a rule to reject traffic from your IP, but I'll have to look at my firewall at home to see how the syntax will go. --- Original Message --- philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:26:29 + -- Hi, I installed PMFirewall recently and have been getting a ton of the same message in my syslog and messages files - they are "deny" messages, but of my own static IP address, so I must have something set up wrong. As a consequence, these files have been getting huge, and have caused me some problems when the partition has run out of space. I notice that there is a ..gz file of each of these files. Is there a system parameter that based on the filesize automatically compresses the file ? If so, how do I manipulate that so that my system behaves while I track down the firewall problem ? Thanks, philomena - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere!
Re: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)?
some clever grepping for regexps recommended [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 14:08:06 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? I dont think so... I tried: xconfigurator XConfigurator Xconfigurator xConfigurator xconfig Xconfig XConfig xconf Xconf XConf nothing works... anyone got any idead?? - Original Message - From: "Lewis Bishop" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:23 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? -Original Message- From: Krulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 November 2000 12:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) well here is my situation: I'm under a PI 120, 81Mb RAM, Mandrake 7.1 I already made it to setup sound card and ethernet but now the only thing that I could do before (configuring X) is making me MAD! this is what I get from some commands in the console: XConfigurator bash: XConfigurator : command not found startx Fatal Server error: No valid modes found. xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : modeline : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : mode : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : endmode : command not found setuptool bash: setuptool : command not found but my XF86Setup works! but when I try any of the combinations for the modes I always get a "no valid mode found" running "startx". isn't there any autoprobe or something like that to detect my card and valid modes 4 it? tx -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
[newbie] USB
This is my problem... and I need help badly When I installed 7.2 half way in the installation my USB keyboard stopped working, but my USB mouse was ok all the way. When The system rebooted the keyboard worked fine but the mouse was dead. In the aurora booting section the mouse didn't move, and when I logged in still no mouse. At least I have the keyboard... Can anyone help me with this mouse problem Jeremie
[newbie] No Midi using Sound Blaster PCI 128 Sound Card
Hi, I am running Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a AMD Duron 700, 64meg ram. The installation went okay except that HardDrake thinks my sound card is a Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI. This driver works okay with Waves but not Midi files. I bought the card for its midi wave table so I'm guttered! I've tried www.opensound.com with no luck. I wasn't sure which version to download as I don't know the kernel type and the one I did download did not seem to install? Does anyone know how to fix the midi or where else I can get drivers?? David ** This message may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. **
[newbie] Mandrake v7.2 question?
Can I assume that the Powerpack deluxe version of Mandrake v7.2 is the one most of us would want to get? (full installs, with the ability to compile our own software, and KDE v2.0 [not pre]?) Thanks in advance! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
[newbie] I can't get connected to internet
I have a pctel modem installed on my computer with mandrake 7.0. When dialing up the internet number everithing is going fine, but when it says "starting pppd" it hangs up. I dont know if is the modem or the drivers, i'm very newbie, like 2 months of xperience.
[newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card
I have a voodoo 5 5500, pentium II 266, 128mb ram, with mandrake 7.0. When I installed Red Hat 7.0 it automatically detected my voodoo 5 5500 but a friend told me that mandrake 7.0 was better then I installed mandrake 7.0 but it didn't detect my 3dfx card. What should I do?
Re: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)?
Did you try XF86Configurator?
Re: [newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card
Hi Head on over to http://linux.3dfx.com You'll find all the drivers you need and good install instructions too, which is a bonus! Good Luck! "Admiral" Ian Bridgeman 8)
RE: [newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card
For Mandrake 7.0 you'll have to download the drivers for it. Mandrake 7.2 has voodoo5 built in support. --- Original Message --- Mauricio Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:42:04 -0300 -- I have a voodoo 5 5500, pentium II 266, 128mb ram, with mandrake 7.0. When I installed Red Hat 7.0 it automatically detected my voodoo 5 5500 but a friend told me that mandrake 7.0 was better then I installed mandrake 7.0 but it didn't detect my 3dfx card. What should I do? - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere!
Re: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)?
To quote mandrakeuser.org, "In LM 7, run XFdrake as 'root'. For enhanced options, try XFdrake --expert If these don't work for you, try XFree's own setup utility xf86config" Jamie From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:25:14 + some clever grepping for regexps recommended [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 14:08:06 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? I dont think so... I tried: xconfigurator XConfigurator Xconfigurator xConfigurator xconfig Xconfig XConfig xconf Xconf XConf nothing works... anyone got any idead?? - Original Message - From: "Lewis Bishop" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:23 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? -Original Message- From: Krulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 November 2000 12:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) well here is my situation: I'm under a PI 120, 81Mb RAM, Mandrake 7.1 I already made it to setup sound card and ethernet but now the only thing that I could do before (configuring X) is making me MAD! this is what I get from some commands in the console: XConfigurator bash: XConfigurator : command not found startx Fatal Server error: No valid modes found. xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : modeline : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : mode : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : endmode : command not found setuptool bash: setuptool : command not found but my XF86Setup works! but when I try any of the combinations for the modes I always get a "no valid mode found" running "startx". isn't there any autoprobe or something like that to detect my card and valid modes 4 it? tx -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] I can't get connected to internet
Hello Mauricio , is your modem a winmodem? You say your modem is installed on your PC. If so it is probably a winmodem and won't work under Linux usually. If modem is external , it's usually going to work with Linux. Let me know and I'll try to help if I can. Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Mauricio Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 3:41 PM Subject: [newbie] I can't get connected to internet I have a pctel modem installed on my computer with mandrake 7.0. When dialing up the internet number everithing is going fine, but when it says "starting pppd" it hangs up. I dont know if is the modem or the drivers, i'm very newbie, like 2 months of xperience.
Re: [newbie] I can't get connected to internet
On Monday 13 November 2000 18:03, you wrote: Hello Mauricio , is your modem a winmodem? You say your modem is installed on your PC. If so it is probably a winmodem and won't work under Linux The future is here, winmodems under Linux: http://www.linmodems.org -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / Live your life by your dreams, not by the limits of reality...
Re: [newbie] Mandrake v7.2 question?
I think you have the essence of the problem well-centered. In other words, good assumption! Civileme On Monday 13 November 2000 15:59, you wrote: Can I assume that the Powerpack deluxe version of Mandrake v7.2 is the one most of us would want to get? (full installs, with the ability to compile our own software, and KDE v2.0 [not pre]?) Thanks in advance! ;-)
Re: [newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card
Arguably in your case Red Hat appears to be "better"... [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 15:42:04 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card I have a voodoo 5 5500, pentium II 266, 128mb ram, with mandrake 7.0. When I installed Red Hat 7.0 it automatically detected my voodoo 5 5500 but a friend told me that mandrake 7.0 was better then I installed mandrake 7.0 but it didn't detect my 3dfx card. What should I do? -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
[newbie] sound problem
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.2 in my Toshiba Satellite 315CDS and all running great except for the soundcard - OPL3-SA2/3/x sound chip. Tried Harddrake and it cannot even see the card. Tried sndconfig but the same, I have no sound. Does anyone have any idea. Any help would be really appreciate. Thanks in advance, Oder.
Re: [newbie] I can't get connected to internet
On Monday 13 November 2000 16:41, you wrote: I have a pctel modem installed on my computer with mandrake 7.0. When dialing up the internet number everithing is going fine, but when it says "starting pppd" it hangs up. I dont know if is the modem or the drivers, i'm very newbie, like 2 months of xperience. PCTel supplies its own linux driver. Someone here hacked on it (the public part of it) http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2717173418 gives the announcement. The actual driver can be found at http://AdvancedExtranet.com/pub/drivers/ This is an unsupported driver. PCTel is producing an HSP modem-like device that transfers the responsibility for signal processing and every other modem thiong to the host processor. In other words it is a modem only with a pile of secret software that gets your computer to do the work that belongs in the hardware that is present in a real modem. Anyway, installation is fairly simple 1. download the file by shift-clicking on pctel.tgz 2. start up a Konsole and do su - to get into root mode. Give the password and then # chmod 0777 /home/yourusername/pctel.tgz 3. click on the house on your kde panel and then right-click on pctel.tgz in the kfm window; select archiver and extract to /home/yourusername 4. in your Konsole, # cd /home/yourusername/pctel # ./install.sh If you have 7.1 that will do it. If you have 7.0, load kernel 2.2.15 first ... Others on this list can help you do that. -- Mandrakesoft Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paris, France
[newbie] Terminalogy
Hello, All. Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card
On Monday 13 November 2000 16:42, you wrote: I have a voodoo 5 5500, pentium II 266, 128mb ram, with mandrake 7.0. When I installed Red Hat 7.0 it automatically detected my voodoo 5 5500 but a friend told me that mandrake 7.0 was better then I installed mandrake 7.0 but it didn't detect my 3dfx card. What should I do? Red Hat 7.0 is the contemporary of Mandrake 7.2, not 7.0 7.1 detected and automatically installed my Voodoo. -- Mandrakesoft Inc[EMAIL PROTECTED] Paris, France
[newbie] free used disk space
How do I determine free used disk space? Thanks, Don a novice Linux, but loving it user _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Terminalogy
intel based prossessor, 386, 486, or pentium.
Re: [newbie] Terminalogy
CPUs. A pentium is an i (i.e. Intel) 586. A Pentium II or such is an i686. A Pentium III or a Duron is (I think) an i 786 [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 17:39:44 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] Terminalogy Hello, All. Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] free used disk space
du and df. They both have good manpages explaining how to use them There are also GUI versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 17:41:07 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] free used disk space How do I determine free used disk space? Thanks, Don a novice Linux, but loving it user _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
[newbie] Giving users rights to use applications
Hello, All. I recently installed an application as a root user an it placed icons on the desktop. Logging in as another user does not have the icons on the desktop. I tried to create icons but was unable to. Was receiving errors. What is it that I need to do to give another user access to applications I installed as root? Should I install all applications when logged in as root user? How do I go about resolving this issue? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] free used disk space
Donald Jr Saxton wrote: How do I determine free used disk space? Thanks, Don a novice Linux, but loving it user _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. use the command df (disk-free) bye!
Re: [newbie] free used disk space
Try the command du from a command prompt or use the kde program Dale Kosan Tech Support Chi Corporation 26309 Miles Road #4 Warrensville Heights,Ohio 44128 Voice-1-800-828-0599 Fax-1-216-360-8301 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.chicorporation.com
Re: [newbie] Terminalogy
On Monday 13 November 2000 11:39 am, Donald Jr Saxton wrote: Hello, All. Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? Proccesors, eg, 368DX/40 (old AMD), 486DX2/66 (old Intel), and i586 is Pentium class, which includes other cpu's besides Intel. When you see RedHat rpm's they usually end with '.i386.rpm'. This means they're optimized/intended to work on 386 systems or better. Mandrake is'.i586', optimized/intended for Pentium class or better systems. Mandrake does release an i486 distro. IIRC, the latest is 7.0 -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card
get version 7.2 of mandrake which will automatically detect and configure your V5. Mandrake 7.0 will not detect the V5 because it uses x 3.3.6 and you need x 4.01. Abe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arguably in your case Red Hat appears to be "better"... [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 15:42:04 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] I cant configure my 3dfx card I have a voodoo 5 5500, pentium II 266, 128mb ram, with mandrake 7.0. When I installed Red Hat 7.0 it automatically detected my voodoo 5 5500 but a friend told me that mandrake 7.0 was better then I installed mandrake 7.0 but it didn't detect my 3dfx card. What should I do? -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2-Final?
Benjamin The 7.2 Complete Does Not include kde 2.0 final. You can update it to 2.0 using Mandrake Update, except in 7.2 it is now just Updates. Charles - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2-Final? Dear Friends: I would like to inquire if the Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Complete ($29.95) sold by Macmillain has the real KDE 2.0 FINAL version. I ordered it from Macmillain but they don't seem to know which KDE 2.0 is included. I wonder if others are in the same boat. Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher RUS: http://www.websher.net SHK: http://www.shakespeareindex.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] XScreenSaver
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, patrick wrote: I have been trying to get xscreensaver to start when Mandrake 7.2 starts. In Mandrake 7.1 Xscreensaver was part of the KDE screen saver, but It is not part of the KDE screen saver in Mandrake 7.2. The screensavers in Mandrake 7.2 KDE are lame. How do I get xscreensaver to load as my default screen saver? I have looked at the FAQ for XScreensaver and they don't seam to apply to Mandrake 7.2. are u seious they took xscreensaver out of their linux. oh oh did mandrake get some new help as of late. did mandrake hire some wrong people. You could try this: in your ~/.xinitrc put/add this line: # Launch xscreensaver (if available) xscreensaver -no-splash -lock-mode Works for me (I do not use KDE, but XFCE) Paul -- http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake
Re: [newbie] size of log files
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, philomena wrote: I will subscribe to that list, but my question is not really a PMFirewall question - its about controlling the size of the system log files - since I saw a syslog.gz , which I know I didn't create, I am assuming there is some system utility that compressed the /var/log/syslog file when it reached some filesize. The same happened with /var/log/messages - there was a messages.gz, which I didn't create. Is there a system parameter or service that monitors and controls the size of specified log files ? If so, I want to set that max file size to something small, so that my system doesn't go haywire while I am workign on the firewall issue. Hi Philomena, Once a week a cronjob runs, executing the /etc/cron.weekly jobs In that directory there probably is a job called 'logrotate'. This is what creates the tar.gz files. Paul -- http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake
Re: [newbie] 7.2(initial install) error installing packages:
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Mitchell Hagerty wrote: There was an error installing packages: setup-2.1.3-22mkd, filesystem-2.0.5, ld.so, glibc, termcap, libtermcap, readline, bash. Go On anyway? I click on 'Yes' and recieve this. error opening RPM database: cannot open file /mnt/var/lib/ rpm/nameindex.rpm: Invalid argument... You may want to try and rebuild the rpm database: rpm --rebuilddb and try installing the packages by hand.. Paul -- http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake
RE: [newbie] size of log files
Title: RE: [newbie] size of log files This also begs the question, is there a file or files that one should periodically clear out to prevent filling up a disk with garbage? I have found nothing in my reading that says it is necessary, but just maybe I missed it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of philomena Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] size of log files Hi Alan, I will subscribe to that list, but my question is not really a PMFirewall question - its about controlling the size of the system log files - since I saw a syslog.gz , which I know I didn't create, I am assuming there is some system utility that compressed the /var/log/syslog file when it reached some filesize. The same happened with /var/log/messages - there was a messages.gz, which I didn't create. Is there a system parameter or service that monitors and controls the size of specified log files ? If so, I want to set that max file size to something small, so that my system doesn't go haywire while I am workign on the firewall issue. Thanks, philomena Alan Shoemaker wrote: philomena wrote: Hi, I installed PMFirewall recently and have been getting a ton of the same message in my syslog and messages files - they are deny messages, but of my own static IP address, so I must have something set up wrong. As a consequence, these files have been getting huge, and have caused me some problems when the partition has run out of space. I notice that there is a ..gz file of each of these files. Is there a system parameter that based on the filesize automatically compresses the file ? If so, how do I manipulate that so that my system behaves while I track down the firewall problem ? Thanks, philomena To subscribe to the pmfirewall mailing list send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe pmfirewall in the body of the message. -- Alan
[newbie] re Terminology
Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? These point to the intel (i) processors: 80 386 80 486 80 586 (pentium) 80 686 (pentium II) Paul -- http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake
Re: [newbie] 7.2(initial install) error installing packages:
down There was an error installing packages: setup-2.1.3-22mkd, filesystem-2.0.5, ld.so, glibc, termcap, libtermcap, readline, bash. Go On anyway? I click on 'Yes' and recieve this. error opening RPM database: cannot open file /mnt/var/lib/ rpm/nameindex.rpm: Invalid argument... You may want to try and rebuild the rpm database: rpm --rebuilddb and try installing the packages by hand.. Paul booting from a cd? could I have alittle more detail on how I would go about doing this? Is there a list of what order I should install the rpms? Mitch
[newbie] rpmdrake
Ok im about to loose my nerves rpmdrake wont accept any media that i tell it it worked before but after (dont ask me why ) taking out the default media (cdrom ) it tells me that it could not find any package and i should check if my network drives are mounted in case i did a network install ... i tryed to choose from ftp and cdrom in both cases the same thing: "no packages detected" any help wanted!!!
Re: [[newbie] free used disk space]
"Donald Jr Saxton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I determine free used disk space? Thanks, Don a novice Linux, but loving it user == The command df in a terminal will return such info to you for all mounted drives (including a floppy, if it happens to be mounted at the time of the command. Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] re Terminology
On Monday 13 November 2000 21:50, Paul wrote: Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? These point to the intel (i) processors: 80 386 80 486 80 586 (pentium) 80 686 (pentium II) so 786 is pentium III ? I have never experienced any package meant for 586 og 686 that have conflicted with my system (running PIII), so what is the point in giving them names then? -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / Live your life by your dreams, not by the limits of reality...
Re: [newbie] Terminalogy
How come the tarball i downloaded from sun this morning with their newest java in it was an ...i386.tar.gz then? Wouldn't you think they of all co's (except of course Mandrakesoft) would be up to date on their optimization? my .02 US Vic wrote: the i386 means optimised for the old 386 intel-based cpu, the i486 is optimised for the old 486 cpu and the i586 is for the current pentium or AMD K6 type cpu s The binary executables have instructions contained in the appropriate cpu. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Donald Jr Saxton wrote: Hello, All. Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] re Terminology
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote: 80 386 80 486 80 586 (pentium) 80 686 (pentium II) so 786 is pentium III ? Don't know, I have never seen that. I have never experienced any package meant for 586 og 686 that have conflicted with my system (running PIII), so what is the point in giving them names then? When you install an i386 package on a Pentium III that won't be a problem, because the PIII is backwards compatible with the 80386. But people with a 486 processor in their PC won't be able to install a package compiled for I586. A 486 will not be upwards compatible with a newer processor. That is why the information on processortype is important. Paul -- http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake
Re: [newbie] Terminalogy
Thanks, Paul. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Terminalogy Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:40:41 + CPUs. A pentium is an i (i.e. Intel) 586. A Pentium II or such is an i686. A Pentium III or a Duron is (I think) an i 786 [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 17:39:44 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] Terminalogy Hello, All. Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Tar Installs
Jeff Malka wrote: Is there a way to force it to install in a specific directory. Like /opt? When I do a TAR -zxvf filename then I run ./configure, make and make install, I can see on the console screen that there's nothing wrong after the install. My big problem is not knowing where it put the file to start the program or what the name would be. The latest culprit is the Firestarter program. Is there any rhyme or reason to this? Usually programs drop themselves in /usr/bin You can do locate program to find where it is on the disk. Often there is a conf.home file in the source files, which tells where the program will be put. Hope this helps Paul -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854 I d/l'ed the RPM of Firestarter and can't get it to work. I'm currently running PMFirewall, could that be the problem? It (Firestarter) exits with a seg fault. At first it complained that I didn't have the correct Gnome libs. I d/l'ed what I could find, and it satisfied its dependencies and installed but still does not work right... Any ideas? The screen shots look great. (would like to have a graphical Firewall - any front end like that for PMFirewall?) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake v7.2 question?
civileme wrote: I think you have the essence of the problem well-centered. In other words, good assumption! Civileme On Monday 13 November 2000 15:59, you wrote: Can I assume that the Powerpack deluxe version of Mandrake v7.2 is the one most of us would want to get? (full installs, with the ability to compile our own software, and KDE v2.0 [not pre]?) Thanks in advance! ;-) grin Thats what I was hoping! Gonna order soon now! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] mounting windows partions
You could give the group owner and group rights to write and everyone else just read rights. Then put anyone you want to have the ability to write into the group Kevin On 13 Nov 2000, Ramandeep wrote: i am using mandrake 7.1. by default my win98 c:\ d:\ and e:\ drives are mounted in read/wrie mode for root as well as users. how to change permissions for a specific user i.e. i want to gve write permission to a user and for other only read permisions. thanx in anticipation _ Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at http://bol.rediff.com Participate in crazy auctions at http://auctions.rediff.com/auctions/
Re: [newbie]printing
Dale Kosan wrote: You are using Netscape I bet,right click on the file or link and choose save as.The other way,as you have found out is not easy to understand.After all the code is done,go up to file,save as and you are done.Just easier to right click... You can also shift left mouse-click as well, and it will blow up a fileselector box... -- /\ DarkLord \/
[newbie] PMFirewall question...
Okay, I'm currently using ipchains/PMFirewall. My question is, since I *think* I've got everything installed correctly (the script said it installed OK), should I not be able to see PMFirewall running, using something like ktop or top, after I've connected to the 'Net? I picked the options where PMF does not start up at boot, but upon a successfull ppp connection. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] free used disk space
Try df This will give you the amount of freespace on all your mounted partitions On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Donald Jr Saxton wrote: How do I determine free used disk space? Thanks, Don a novice Linux, but loving it user _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] size of log files
Hi Paul, That was it - I did a 'man logrotate' and got tons of info - the files can be controled based on timing as well as size - very neat. Thanks for the pointer, philomena On Monday 13 November 2000 08:18 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, philomena wrote: I will subscribe to that list, but my question is not really a PMFirewall question - its about controlling the size of the system log files - since I saw a syslog.gz , which I know I didn't create, I am assuming there is some system utility that compressed the /var/log/syslog file when it reached some filesize. The same happened with /var/log/messages - there was a messages.gz, which I didn't create. Is there a system parameter or service that monitors and controls the size of specified log files ? If so, I want to set that max file size to something small, so that my system doesn't go haywire while I am workign on the firewall issue. Hi Philomena, Once a week a cronjob runs, executing the /etc/cron.weekly jobs In that directory there probably is a job called 'logrotate'. This is what creates the tar.gz files. Paul
Re: [newbie]printing
In Netscape press and hold the shift key while you click the url to download the file. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I went to the site to download Cups and I got alot of computer language or code printout to my screen instead of an RPM package that I expected. I went to a site for Acroread 4.02 rpm and the same thing happened. What do I need to do to correct this? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] zip drive
On Monday 13 November 2000 16:38, you wrote: Hi all, I have a dell inspiron 3700 pIII 450mhz, I installed ver 7.2 and everything worked fine. When I installed linux I had my usb iomega zip drive installed. During the installation the os found the zip drive, and installed the folder in the mount folder. But when I go to it, it has a lock on it. I went into gtkzip, and it shows the zip drive as having a scsi connection. Even though it found it as a usb drive during install. When the computer boots up, it loads the usb stuff fine, with no errors. Any help would be appreciated do the following as root 1) create a symlink between /dev/sda4 and /dev/zip ln -s /dev/sda4 /dev/zip 2) make a mount directory mkdir /mnt/zip 3) add the following line to /etc/fstab /dev/zip/mnt/zipauto user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0 4) add the following lines into /etc/modules # # usb stuff # usbcore usb-uhci usb-storage As a user, change create an icon on your desktop for the zip drive right click on the desktop select create new - floppy change the mounted icon name on the general tab select device /dev/zip on the device tab change the unmounted icon on the device tab click OK Prior to first use, you may need to modprobe for usbcore, usb-uhci, usb-storage as root, if the modules were not loaded at boot time
Re: [newbie] Terminalogy
Huh, good question. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, -michael- wrote: How come the tarball i downloaded from sun this morning with their newest java in it was an ...i386.tar.gz then? Wouldn't you think they of all co's (except of course Mandrakesoft) would be up to date on their optimization? my .02 US Vic wrote: the i386 means optimised for the old 386 intel-based cpu, the i486 is optimised for the old 486 cpu and the i586 is for the current pentium or AMD K6 type cpu s The binary executables have instructions contained in the appropriate cpu. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Donald Jr Saxton wrote: Hello, All. Just a quick question...Please don't kill me. What does i386, i486, i586 refer to? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] (...) X reinstall seems to be the only solution...
I dont know what else to do... I already tried XF86Config, XF86Setup, Xconfigurator... the first gives me internal "command not found" errors, like "/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config: modeline: command not found" the other 2 run well but everytime I try to "startx" he starts and exits imediatly with this message: waiting for X server to shut down YES, I RAN THOSE COMMANDS AS ROOT YES! so dont tell me that again... what now? can I reinstall X? or something like that?
[newbie] Problem with DiskDrake
Hello Friends, Yesterday i was installing Mandrake 7.2 on AMDk7 - 750MHz, VIA- Chipset(Soyo Mother board) 128MB, Diamond Viper 200(32MB)AGP and 30GB Hard Disk I had 4 partitions on this Harddisk, is connected to primary IDE (master), of the following size 1) Partition 1 = 6000GB 2) Partitoon 2 = 9000GB 3) Partition 3 = 6000GB I had win98 and 2000 on these partitions. In the forth partition, i had an suse linux installed(around 8 - 9 gb) with swap, boot and root partition. I started Mandrake 7.2 installation from the CD rom and choose "Select existing partition". It showed the existing linux partition(SuSe one). It asked to continue with the formating of the Linux Native partition. and resulted in error saying "unable to format and mount" Then, i thought of changing the partition size, i used advanced option,(DiskDrake - disk partitioner and resizer), this showed the existing partition information on the disk properly, and then i created partitions and selected mount point for the /boot and /(root). DiskDrake prompted, partition information is going to written to disk, then i pressed ok. After that, it pooped a box saying "Unable to read partition information, continue at your own risk" then it displayed a blank disk with no partition. Actually it screwed up my entire disk partition information by deleting partition table. Then i shutdown mandrake installation, and try to boot to win98. i couldn't able too, bios din't reconginze booting device, then i boot using 98 floppy and did fdisk on the harddisk, i was really surprised, only two partition were there on the disk, C: with 1MB and D with 4GB. and my entire hard disk got wiped out and i couldn't able to recover the data. Later i thought of partitioning harddisk using DiskDrake and install mandrake. I created 3 FAT32 partition of size 6000Gb, 6000GB,1GB, and in the remaining(8GB) i created swap, /boot and / linux partition, at this time too, i faced few problems with DiskDrake, it used to give error message saying "swap space need to be."(specifying exact error message). Finally somehow, i could able to format linux native partition and installation went through properly. I selected boot loader to reside on MBR. Then installation displayed "Installation completion" message, told to reboot the system, by removing the media from the CDRom. I did this, but system was unable to boot/find the linux boot image. No other way to go, i reinstalled the Linux, during this time also i need to re-create partitions(i was getting same old error messages) and however i managed to create boot disk this time and told to install boot loader in the first sector of boot partition and rebooted the system. Same thing, the system din't recognized the linux loader, however i could able to boot using boot disk which i had created during installation. Then i booted to win98, and did fdisk, surprisingly i could able to see only two partition even though i had created 3 FAT32 partition with DiskDrake. Primary partition C: of 6GB(this is correct) and Only one extended dos partition of 23GB D: but i had created two extended partition of 6GB and 10 GB. I need to know, why system is unable to load linux on startup? what is the problem with linuxloader?? have you guys seen this kind of DiskDrake behavior??? is this DiskDrake is a buggy software??? Can mandrake guys answer my questions?? Thanks Raj
Re: [newbie] free used disk space
Civileme, Welcome back to the list! It's great to see you posting once again. It has been a while. How is everything with you these days? -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 civileme had this to say! If you want to determin e free and used disk space from a console $ df From a Graphic User interface 7.0 and 7.1 use K File System Control -- very similar to right clicking on a drive and selecting 'Properties' in windows, except you can select any partition from the graphic that comes up. 7.2, 6.0, and 6.1 use K Disk Free, which shows all the partitions (volumes) graphically with horizontal bar graphs. It is a mistake to think of the disk as partially full in the windows9x/ME sense. There is no free space at the end of the partition. The filesystems employed are designed to prevent fragmentation of files, so they store information differently (and much more reconstructably). On Monday 13 November 2000 18:41, you wrote: How do I determine free used disk space? Thanks, Don a novice Linux, but loving it user -- Mandrakesoft Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paris, France
Re: [newbie] newbie] A ADSL Question
Download the package rp-pppoe from Roaring Penguin.com. Follow the installation instructions contained in the tar package. Piece of cake. Ihave DSLfrom Verizon also. Works like a charm! -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #175132 Powered by Linux-Mandrake 7.1
[newbie] domain setup
can someone help me setup my server for my new domain name... this is the first time doing this... I have Mandrake 7.02 with Apache 1.3.9 -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] Problem with DiskDrake
just how big deem hard drives? and where did you get a 6000 gig. drive anyway, from the starship Enterprise? Kirk will be mad. - Original Message - From: "Raju Krishnappa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 5:46 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem with DiskDrake Hello Friends, Yesterday i was installing Mandrake 7.2 on AMDk7 - 750MHz, VIA- Chipset(Soyo Mother board) 128MB, Diamond Viper 200(32MB)AGP and 30GB Hard Disk I had 4 partitions on this Harddisk, is connected to primary IDE (master), of the following size 1) Partition 1 = 6000GB 2) Partitoon 2 = 9000GB 3) Partition 3 = 6000GB I had win98 and 2000 on these partitions. In the forth partition, i had an suse linux installed(around 8 - 9 gb) with swap, boot and root partition. I started Mandrake 7.2 installation from the CD rom and choose "Select existing partition". It showed the existing linux partition(SuSe one). It asked to continue with the formating of the Linux Native partition. and resulted in error saying "unable to format and mount" Then, i thought of changing the partition size, i used advanced option,(DiskDrake - disk partitioner and resizer), this showed the existing partition information on the disk properly, and then i created partitions and selected mount point for the /boot and /(root). DiskDrake prompted, partition information is going to written to disk, then i pressed ok. After that, it pooped a box saying "Unable to read partition information, continue at your own risk" then it displayed a blank disk with no partition. Actually it screwed up my entire disk partition information by deleting partition table. Then i shutdown mandrake installation, and try to boot to win98. i couldn't able too, bios din't reconginze booting device, then i boot using 98 floppy and did fdisk on the harddisk, i was really surprised, only two partition were there on the disk, C: with 1MB and D with 4GB. and my entire hard disk got wiped out and i couldn't able to recover the data. Later i thought of partitioning harddisk using DiskDrake and install mandrake. I created 3 FAT32 partition of size 6000Gb, 6000GB,1GB, and in the remaining(8GB) i created swap, /boot and / linux partition, at this time too, i faced few problems with DiskDrake, it used to give error message saying "swap space need to be."(specifying exact error message). Finally somehow, i could able to format linux native partition and installation went through properly. I selected boot loader to reside on MBR. Then installation displayed "Installation completion" message, told to reboot the system, by removing the media from the CDRom. I did this, but system was unable to boot/find the linux boot image. No other way to go, i reinstalled the Linux, during this time also i need to re-create partitions(i was getting same old error messages) and however i managed to create boot disk this time and told to install boot loader in the first sector of boot partition and rebooted the system. Same thing, the system din't recognized the linux loader, however i could able to boot using boot disk which i had created during installation. Then i booted to win98, and did fdisk, surprisingly i could able to see only two partition even though i had created 3 FAT32 partition with DiskDrake. Primary partition C: of 6GB(this is correct) and Only one extended dos partition of 23GB D: but i had created two extended partition of 6GB and 10 GB. I need to know, why system is unable to load linux on startup? what is the problem with linuxloader?? have you guys seen this kind of DiskDrake behavior??? is this DiskDrake is a buggy software??? Can mandrake guys answer my questions?? Thanks Raj
RE: [newbie] Tar Installs
Use: tar -zxvf filname -C /directory/where/you/want/it/to/go HTH, Bill P.S. Uppercase C -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of gcobb Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Tar Installs I've got this really basic question that I haven't been able to conquer just yet. When I do a TAR -zxvf filename then I run ./configure, make and make install, I can see on the console screen that there's nothing wrong after the install. My big problem is not knowing where it put the file to start the program or what the name would be. The latest culprit is the Firestarter program. Is there any rhyme or reason to this? Thanks!
Re: [newbie] (...) X reinstall seems to be the only solution...
On Monday 13 November 2000 04:43 pm, Krulo wrote: I dont know what else to do... I already tried XF86Config, XF86Setup, Xconfigurator... try typing 'apropos xf86' you'll get back a ton of commands/statements related to XF86 Prob'ly towards the end of the output you'll see : xf86config (1x) - generate an XF86Config file this is the basic text based X tool, and IIRC, configures XF-3.x.x YES, I RAN THOSE COMMANDS AS ROOT YES! so dont tell me that again... what now? can I reinstall X? or something like that? Well if all else fails, how 'bout putting the install CD in and tryin 'upgrade' or 'rescue' (depends on Mandrake version), and when it gets to the X setup part, choose a conservative resolution for your monitor. EG, if it's a 17", "monitor that can do 1024x768 at 70hz" or for a 15", "...800x600 at 70hz" and a color depth of 16 (65k). Some cards aren't supported in XF-4, but are in XF-3, so maybe you need to investigate that. It could also be that your video card works better with some kernels and not others, particularly if it's not well supported by the manufacturer. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2-Final?
Charles A Edwards wrote: Benjamin The 7.2 Complete Does Not include kde 2.0 final. You can update it to 2.0 using Mandrake Update, except in 7.2 it is now just Updates. Charles - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2-Final? Dear Friends: I would like to inquire if the Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Complete ($29.95) sold by Macmillain has the real KDE 2.0 FINAL version. I ordered it from Macmillain but they don't seem to know which KDE 2.0 is included. I wonder if others are in the same boat. Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher RUS: http://www.websher.net SHK: http://www.shakespeareindex.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yup, I found the same info on the LM web site indicating that none of the commercial releases have the newer KDE. Frankly, I'll use the freebie version until this changes this doesn't seem like the worlds greatest marketing idea to meG Paul
Re: [newbie] Problem with DiskDrake
Ed Tharp wrote: just how big deem hard drives? and where did you get a 6000 gig. drive anyway, from the starship Enterprise? Kirk will be mad. - Original Message - From: "Raju Krishnappa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 5:46 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem with DiskDrake Hello Friends, Yesterday i was installing Mandrake 7.2 on AMDk7 - 750MHz, VIA- Chipset(Soyo Mother board) 128MB, Diamond Viper 200(32MB)AGP and 30GB Hard Disk I had 4 partitions on this Harddisk, is connected to primary IDE (master), of the following size 1) Partition 1 = 6000GB 2) Partitoon 2 = 9000GB 3) Partition 3 = 6000GB I had win98 and 2000 on these partitions. In the forth partition, i had an suse linux installed(around 8 - 9 gb) with swap, boot and root partition. I started Mandrake 7.2 installation from the CD rom and choose "Select existing partition". It showed the existing linux partition(SuSe one). It asked to continue with the formating of the Linux Native partition. and resulted in error saying "unable to format and mount" Then, i thought of changing the partition size, i used advanced option,(DiskDrake - disk partitioner and resizer), this showed the existing partition information on the disk properly, and then i created partitions and selected mount point for the /boot and /(root). DiskDrake prompted, partition information is going to written to disk, then i pressed ok. After that, it pooped a box saying "Unable to read partition information, continue at your own risk" then it displayed a blank disk with no partition. Actually it screwed up my entire disk partition information by deleting partition table. Then i shutdown mandrake installation, and try to boot to win98. i couldn't able too, bios din't reconginze booting device, then i boot using 98 floppy and did fdisk on the harddisk, i was really surprised, only two partition were there on the disk, C: with 1MB and D with 4GB. and my entire hard disk got wiped out and i couldn't able to recover the data. Later i thought of partitioning harddisk using DiskDrake and install mandrake. I created 3 FAT32 partition of size 6000Gb, 6000GB,1GB, and in the remaining(8GB) i created swap, /boot and / linux partition, at this time too, i faced few problems with DiskDrake, it used to give error message saying "swap space need to be."(specifying exact error message). Finally somehow, i could able to format linux native partition and installation went through properly. I selected boot loader to reside on MBR. Then installation displayed "Installation completion" message, told to reboot the system, by removing the media from the CDRom. I did this, but system was unable to boot/find the linux boot image. No other way to go, i reinstalled the Linux, during this time also i need to re-create partitions(i was getting same old error messages) and however i managed to create boot disk this time and told to install boot loader in the first sector of boot partition and rebooted the system. Same thing, the system din't recognized the linux loader, however i could able to boot using boot disk which i had created during installation. Then i booted to win98, and did fdisk, surprisingly i could able to see only two partition even though i had created 3 FAT32 partition with DiskDrake. Primary partition C: of 6GB(this is correct) and Only one extended dos partition of 23GB D: but i had created two extended partition of 6GB and 10 GB. I need to know, why system is unable to load linux on startup? what is the problem with linuxloader?? have you guys seen this kind of DiskDrake behavior??? is this DiskDrake is a buggy software??? Can mandrake guys answer my questions?? Thanks Raj rolling on the floor :) this newbie place can be fun at times
